The majority of people love neutral colours when it comes to the exterior of their house. A classic, timeless look that works with the bright Australian sun, working with the streetscape rather than dominating it. A neutral colour is one that doesn't contain too much of one colour therefore making it easy to teem with other hues. All colours however have an underlying hue. Some may contain more red, yellow or green so you need to ensure that a colour that appears very neutral appeals to you in daylight. Neutrals for exteriors need to be much greyer and darker than you would imagine. Once the sun shines on these colours, the grey washes out and the colour shines through so if the colour is not grey enough, your house could end up looking like a fruit salad!
A good tip is to paint a large piece of board with your chosen colour. Use two coats and then move the board around the exterior of the house and view it at different times of the day and from different aspects. The colour will appear quite different on the south aspect of the house compared to the north which gets more sun. A colour during the daytime will also appear different in the late afternoon light.
Greys are perfect to use on the exterior of a house. They are sophisticated and sleek. Greys order tramadol mexico work well with natural silver windows and silver colorbond trim and are perfect to use in the Australian light. Dark greys work best on rendered walls and look great when placed next to natural stone. As with neutral browns, all grey hues have an underlying colour. This house is painted with subtle green hues that work well in a suburb that is home to many native gum trees.
Grey may seem an uninspired choice but when used with other natural elements, particularly richly coloured timber, it offers a very understated look which is timeless and elegant.
Remember to view grey samples outside. Only in natural daylight will you see the underlying colour. Also bear in mind that the larger the colour sample, the lighter it will appear. A colour that looks very dark on a small paint chip will look much lighter when outside and on the exterior of a house.
Remember that even the neutral greys have an underlying colour This is often a blue or a green and some greys will appear warm and others cool. Ensure you select the right one to go with your roof colour.
Weatherboard houses are popular in Australia and these lining boards lend themselves to colour. Greys with a definite underlying colour work well on these houses as the weatherboard creates natural shadow and therefore breaks up the colour.
It's double dutch to me but I was hoping, in light of this slightly different colour, you might be able to direct me to suitable colours for our render? I have looked at Gnu Tan but there is very little contrast with the windowframes. Stonecrop came up as being too dark and chocolatey. I looked at Barnfloor but, while it looks quite good with paperbark, it just looked wrong with the windowframes having more yellowish tones. The front of the house faces south.
Main render is Grey Pebble Quarter as the main render?
Portico is Deep Walnut 150%.?
Would really appreciate advice on the renders just the grey looks so pale and the walnut looks so dark?
I also wrote to you on August 3rd and just wondered about another aspect re the colour for our home.
We have decided to go for Grey Pebble full strength render, Barramundi Roof tile,Deep Walnut Portico Render 150% (which appears nothing like it sounds as it sounds like Brown but isn't!!) Silver window frames, we are also having a graphite paver for the driveway, my question is the garage door colour, can you please give me a suggestion?
Found your blog today in my desperate search for an external render colour for my home. Not sure whether you are able to offer any advice?
Our home has a Woodland Grey Colorbond Roof, fascia in Dulux White Dune Half, and eaves and a small clad "extension" painted in Dulux Paperbark. We have Cedar windows, and the render has Ashlar block markings in it. I am after a stone like colour to make our home look a bit like a grand country farmhouse. Have tried Dulux Gentle Touch and Raw Encounter 3/4 strenght but both are showing way to yellow. Dulux Grand Piano is a nice colour, but too grey for the Paperbark and the cedar windows. Have also looked at Taubmans Toasted Almond, which seemed to have a bit of a purple undertone, but maybe because I was comparing it to the yellows. I am looking at Hog Bristle or Taubmans Ecru Stone, but not sure whether I should be looking darker. Any suggestions would be extremely helpful!
Wow, what a minefield exterior colours are! We're looking to start painting our rendered walls outside but have become stuck as after having painted the gutters and fascia colorbond woodland grey, we've learnt that it throws off quite a bit of green, not what we were expecting. We get a lot of natural sunlight around our house. We first considered Colorbond dune to match which looks great in the brochures but shows up quite grey we thought on the sample patches we painted, in the shade particularly. Colorbond Sandbank is one option we thought but I've also been considering Dulux Linseed, could you please provide your thoughts on this? the roof is off white. Many thanks, Jacqui.
Hi, we are painting exterior of house which is rendered on the side (currently pink brown scheme) it is a box sort of Georgian style house with big white sash windows but not a huge house. I'm looking for a warm neural that is also bright if that makes sense…I think a grey will be a bit to dull and we have brown roof tiles that we aren't changing. I want a bright white on windows and maybe black/dark grey on trims/pillars and door so just looking for ideas for walls…I've looked at dulux white duck but maybe too yellow! Any ideas appreciated.
Hi Rachael You could try Tapestry Beige or Time Capsule from Dulux for a warm neutral that has enough grey to contend with the sunlight but not so much that it will appear dull. It's difficult to say for sure so you should look at these first in the paint store and if they appeal then get a sample pot to try out first. Limed White is a nice soft warm white to go with these for the trim. Good Luck!
Thank you again for your advice, it is much appreciated! Your blog is great, glad I came across it in my search.
Samantha any possibly in sending you a photo of our house – very unsure about colour as we also have a colourbond fence in Jasper -and a light cream colour – we could repay the posts if necessary – keen on Stonecrop render and love the look of a photo on your blog page love all colours and roof colour / you kind help will be appreciated ????
What would be the best white for walls and the ceiling for a kitchen with dulux linseed cupboards and dark grey floor.
We saw a Dulux consultant today who recommended woodland grey roof, bogart lower level and linseed upper level.
I went into the meeting wanting a grey base and I am concerned this will look very brown/green.
It is such a big decision and such a short meeting with tiny colour cards! I am struggling!
Would really value your opinion.
I loved reading your blog. We are anticipating giving our 1990's terracotta coloured roof and light orange brick house a "face-lift" and I was hoping if you can clarify some colour choices for us, please?
We hope to have our tiled roof resprayed to a charcoal colour and render the bricks with the Dulux colours Flooded Gum or Stepney. As our windows are of a Colonial/French style with the window trims, I was unsure to paint them Vivid White or a similar colour to the roof being charcoal. I really love the American style houses white/grey colour schemes, but not too sure if it will compliment our simple single-story house. Our internal window frames/trims are all white. Would the charcoal trims be a more modern look, or make the house appear dark? We also have two single garage doors & are not sure what colour to paint those either….perhaps charcoal?
I would love to hear your ideas.
I'm just about to start painting exterior of our weatherboard home. So far we have picked a dulux warm neutral as the main colour with antique white for windows. We are undecided what colour combination to use on our picket fence. I was thinking warm neutral on the pickets but would like a darker colour for the post. Have you any suggestions??
We are in the process in selecting a colour for the exterior of our house.
The picture of the house on this page we like.
Could you please email me the colours of this house.
Hi Samantha, I am loving reading your colour advice and am really hoping you could help me please. Our renovstion will see us with a first floor addition in Scyon stria cladding and the existing bricks to be rendered. We are thinking of rendering in Dulux Stepney (which should suit the bush backdrop) and having a colorbond Basalt roof (flat skillion). A feature render at the entrance could match the basalt colour but my question is regarding the colour of the cladding and garage doors. We are thinking of doing both in a light colour perhaps colorbond shale grey. The windows will be black aluminium. Do you think shale grey works with stepney and basalt or do you suggest something else please? Selecting colours is so difficult.
Thank you so much for your response Samantha. I appreciate it.
Hi Samantha, so love your blog :))) So need some advice, this is just so confusing. I have a dark red brick home with two rectangle windows each side of the front door. The windows are aluminium custom cream and there is rendered framing around each window against the brick work in an off white neutral colour which we want to leave as is. We also have a verandah across the front of the house which faces west. The roof is colourbond shale grey and the gutters are windspray. I am wanting to paint the picket fence, verandah timber & posts, door surround timber in all one colour, was considering dulux hogs bristle. I would love a dark front door in maybe a dark colour or a blue which will go ok with roof and gutters. Would love any suggestions and thanks again for a great blog.
Oops, I forgot to mention that the windows are silver aluminium, probably with whitefish window dressings. Overall the interior has a natural, of the earth feel with timber, stone, warm geys and warm whites.
Hi Samantha, feedback from above. We painted two coats of Dawson Falls, Dawson Falls half, and Saudi Sand onto boards and then put them up individually against the house. It turns out only one side of the house gets a lot of sun even with the summer-winter sun shift. On that wall Dawson Falls worked the best because the green came thorough, but on all the other walls it was a deep grey. It felt too cool. Dawson Falls half was too washed out. We are going with the warmer Saudi Sand because it warms the shade and shadows. Again I thank you, I can see where you were coming from and I am glad we tried it.
We're renovating and adding a storey to our home. The render color we've chosen for our east facing house is Dulux, Bogart, gutters in monument, high gloss front door in Momument, Sufmist fasicas, roof tiles are similar color to monument too. Our dilemma is the garage door. We don't want it being a feature, so aren't wanting surfmist or monument. We would the rather the garage door blend with the house color. Finding the right powdercoated color to suit is proving difficult as Cove & Gully seem to be the closest complimenting colors.
What would you suggest ?
Hi Samantha, great site! And great interiors book too, I was flicking through it in a friends house recently, which is how I ended up here. I'm hoping you might be able to provide a snippet of advice which might save our marriage! We recently bought a house which in recent years had a paint facelift but unfortunately the colour scheme belonged in the early 80s. Very yellow and brown.Two storey, terracotta tiles and a rough stucco-like render job, which was poorly done and with the yellow paint looks dirty/streaky. When we renovated our previous brick house we used a great colour scheme recommended by an architect friend, which was Monument trims (gutters, fascia, eaves, windows, gable battens, the lot), and Dulux Ashen Grove for the infill fibro bits, it made a dated cottage look sleek and modern. I'm thinking the same for the new place, Monument guttering, fascia and eaves and the carport and pergola framing. We also have an old weatherboard add-on which I'm going to reclad in Scyon Axon and paint Monument as a contrast. The problem is the main wall colour. Ashen Grove is a really nice dark earthy grey which goes great with Monument, but I'm concerned it might be a bit too dark for the whole house. Have also looked at some Colorbond alternatives, Gully and Wallaby, which are both lighter but tinge of green and blue a bit respectively.
Now I'm thinking we should maybe play it safe with a more neutral brown that compliments the Monument. A bit like the house at the top of this page. We're about three weeks away from having to choose and no agreement has been reached. Any help would be gratefully received. A nice colour, not too light, to suit a rough rendered house with predominantly Monument trims. And a window frame colour would help too, have had Surfmist suggested or another grey tinted white. Thank you! PS Apologies for the long winded post!
Hi Rob just seen the additional post! The colour here is Dulux Shipwreck which is a very popular neutral brown. This will work well with Surfmist which is a good powdercoat colour and is in the standard range with a lot of window companies which helps to save money! Slightly grey to work with inside though but a great white for outside.
Hi Samantha, I would love your opinion, I have a weatherboard single story home currently with a Tuscan red color bond roof and smooth cream walls (painted 15 yrs ago)…. I would like to change the color of the entire house..
HI Lisa You can't go wrong with Woodland Grey roof as it is so neutral and popular. You can make the guttering disappear by painting it the same as the roof or make your trim more dominant by keeping it the same as your fascia and windows which in your case would work – all of this in Surfmist would give the house a nice lift and prevent it from being too grey. Just beware with Grey Pebble as it is not too dissimilar outside to Surfmist. Get a sample pot and paint a large board before you commit – you may find the weatherbaords would look better one tone darker in Heifer and this would give you more of a contrast with your white trim. Good luck!
Hi Samantha, I am desperate and cannot work out an exterior colour for the home. I like fresh coastal white look. I have a cape cod home. Roof and gutters are Basalt colorbond. fascia is Colorbond surfmiSt. Window is alluminium White satin dullaroy product. What colour can I paint the wall? I was thinking grave couloir double dulux but afraid it clash with the surfmist. I would like a white look that can blend with that surfmist and White window? Any suggestions? What would you recommend? Thanks for your advice.
Hi Samantha, thanks for replying! Yep, Ashen Grove was a new colour in the "Heat Reflect" range back in 2011, I think it became defunct when the ACCC took Dulux to court over it, but they obviously still have the recipe on file as you can get it if you ask. You can find the brochure with the colors still online if you google it. It's a fairly dark brown tinged grey, probably like a double strength mixture of Gully and Wallaby. The sample I painted on the rendered wall gives a slightly purplish tinge though which we never had when it was on FC sheeting. We only ever had it on infills, I'm worried it won't suit an entire rendered two storey house. My latest trial is triple strength Dune, just waiting for the first coat to dry now. It's nice, but very safe, not really the statement I was hoping to make. But if you're gonna pay many thousands to get your house painted the last thing you want to do is take a massive risk and fail! The triple Dune I think will go ok with the Monument trims and fibro addition and the Surfmist windows, I just would have liked something ever so slightly darker and daring! The tiles are dirty orange but thinking of spraying them dark. A temporary solution until we have to replace them anyway. Thanks again!!
I would really appreciate your help please with a colour to use on hardiplank external walls of our house we are renovating. The roof is colorbond jasper & I am trying to find a neutral grey/beige. I was planning to use an antique white or China white on the window frames & eaves. I have looked at taubmans Abstract or colorbond Dune for the walls.
Hi Samantha. I'm in the middle of choosing external finishes for our house renovation/extension and came across your blog. It's very interesting and helpful thank you! I'd love some advice from you if possible.
Our house is a 2 storey weatherboard house. The front is a fairly traditional style and has painted timber window frames. The back of the house (the extension) is a more contemporary style with a skillion roof and natural anodised aluminium windows. The corrugated roof & guttering will have a galvanised finish. The back of the house will have quite a bit of timber in the mix too (spotted gum decking and recycled hardwood posts). I'm visualising a dark-ish grey paint finish for the weatherboards at the back but I'm concerned this might be too dark for the front of the house so I'm considering a shade or 2 lighter for the front. Do you think Dulux Basalt would look good at the back with the silver windows/roof & timber features, and then perhaps 1/2 strength Basalt for the front? Do you have any suggestions of other greys which might work better and also a suggestion for the trim colour for the front? Perhaps a shade of white but I don't want them to look to stark. I am also considering the option of using a different cladding material than weatherboard for the extension at the back (eg Weathergroove panelling or Colorbond corrugated) to emphasise the difference between old and new but I'm not sure if it's better to play it safe and just use a matching weatherboard to the front. My builder needs my decision on this very quickly but I'm finding it very difficult!
Your advice and blog is impressive. You seem to know your colours very wel. I just need some advice to make sure you making the best choice for my render.
I have a south facing facade in WA. The style of the house is classic modern. We have a natural travertine feature wall (Sahara Chiaro) that goes all the way from the ground floor up to the second storey roof. My roof is Monier Stirling Soho Night (charcoal) and the gutters and fascia are in Monument. The front door, garage, turret and part of the eaves is in wood. The window frames are in Silver Lustre.
I am considering texture coating the house in Paperbark, a colour bond colour and doing the boundary fence in Dulux Stonecrop. Will the house look too dark in the paperbark and does paperbark have a pinkish hue?
The other option was to texture coat the house in Dulux Russian Toffee and the boundary fence in Dulux Self Destruct or even Gnu Tan. Does Russian Toffee have a pinkish hue? I'm not sure if Russian Toffee will be too light.
I want to make sure the natural travertine feature wall stands out and doesn't get lost in the house exterior colours. I am using the same travertine for my entire ground floor indoors with the same colour theme of wood and Dulux Grand Piano running through.
What would you recommend? It is the exterior texture wall colours that I am having trouble deciding as to which combo to go with. Paperbark and Stonecrop or Russian Toffee and Self Destruct / Gnu Tan.
Would appreciate your help as I have to decide this week.
Would appreciate your advice – we are renovating our single story brick home, and rendering the extension only at this point. I have monument windows going in, and wallaby guttering and downpipes. My current bricks are a 1970's clinker which are red with a steely blue/purple centre. Dulux Linseed 200% has been recommended for the render, but i am a bit unsure if it will be too warm – I tend to prefer cooler, steely tones. what do you think?
We have a late 1970's southeast facing highset dark brick & chamferboard house which currently has a Headland roof (which we will eventually change to a light-mid grey to avoid heat). We must have new guttering before summer storm season and have chosen Colorbond Monument (for fascia as well). I like Evening Haze for downpipes & chamferboards and hope I can tie this all in with right shade of white for eaves (and trims?) on the verandah that runs the full width front of our house. Ranch slider doors opening on to verandah are silver framed upstairs and we have olive bronze down- it really is a bitza! Would you suggest monument for these? I hope I'm on the right track, but I am open to suggestions please!
Hi Samantha, im hoping for a bit of your wisdom too! We have a 1950s brick home that we are wanting to re-render and paint. Our roof and gutters are a slate/grey-blue colour. We are doing window trim and accents in lexicon-half and am tossing up between Dulux Colourbond Dune or Dulux Linseed for the render. Any thoughts on the way we should go? I want a nice grey. Nothing too dark or too pale.
Hi Sam It's difficult to say for sure without seeing you. I don't feel that Dune will go with the slate grey but the best thing to do is to paint too large samples on card and put them next to the trim to see what you think?
We have just updated our peach and orange, house and painted the roof windspray, we didnt realise it is so light and assumed it would be like woodland grey. The house colour is called dulux white duck… the house is quite big, the windows and eves are to be lexicon quarter. Today they finished the roof, and one wall of white duck, the house now looks like the white duck is very green/grey and the roof quite similar! We were planning to update the colour scheme to more a beach house feel, but feel we may have picked a house colour too muddy/green… any ideas? we have a lot of balustrading that we originally thought to change from black to lexicon….!!! help!
I am very interested in your thoughts about a suitable colour to go with Colourbond Jasper for a rendered home. We are painting two planter boxes and letter box in Jasper to match the facia and guttering. The have stained timber windows and front door. Also and brick column at the front entrance made from Daniel Robertson bricks Hawthorn (either brown or red – not sure which one). We had chosen Dune for the rest of the facade but are concerned that it might be too pink, our other choice is Linseed but also considered Beige Royal. We would really appreciate your thoughts.
Your blog is a great read. I love the colours on the picture of the first house on this page. What colours are they?
I love the brown neutral tones and my rendered house is painted Dulux Light Leather. My gutters and fascia are Dulux Ceylonese with the intention of having our roof painted Ceylonese. However I am having second thoughts as in different lights the Ceylonese looks like Light Leather and there is not enough of a strong contrast between the two. Could you please suggest a roof colour to go with Light Leather. I am prepared to reprint the gutters and fascia a new roof colour. Our windows are white and we have some jarrah timber doors at the front of the house.
Hi Samantha, I've just noticed your blog on exterior colour schemes…wow, it's such a difficult decision to make!
We're in the process of renovating an existing house and will be rendering the exterior. I bought a few paint pots and tested colours on the front of the house, and we thought Dune would come out as a grey colour (according to the paint pot) but it came out brown instead when we started rendering. We're not after a brown/creamy render, we prefer a grey look. Difficulty is, having read some of your posts, some greys can have a pink undertone, which we don't want either.
We've got a monument tiled roof, monument gutters and black windows. The house faces the North, and we are on a steep downward slope, so the front landscaping does hide some of the facade. I'm also not sure how the shadows of the roof or angle of the sunlight etc would affect the render colour.
Your guidance would be very much appreciated.
Hi Marina Many of the browns around are considered grey, in fact I tell clients that I have a brown to show them and they say to me – no that's grey! Problem is we all see colour slightly differently. Clearly what you want is a colour that contains more black. I suggest you visit a paint store as opposed to the big hardware warehouses where you will get some good advice. You need to ask to see their full fan deck or Dulux stores have a large atlas and you will see the difference then between a real grey and brown grey. It's very difficult to be more specific – you may need a local colour consultant for an hour?
Hi Samantha, really love your blog and I've learnt so much.
I'm trying to aim for a neutral look, trying to avoid colors that have to much tinge of green.With the two colour options which combo works best together taking all the other elements into concentration.
Hi Samantha, We are currently doing a double storied extension of the house. Its a east facing house.
The house will be fully rendered, the roof will be colorbond and the current timber window will be replaced with an aluminium window.
The color combination we have selected are: Wallaby for the roof & gutter, Surfmist for the fascia & downpipes, and Dulux Casper white for the rendered wall. Our objective is to provide a cooler appearance.
Do you think the color setting will give a cooler look?
Hi Samantha, i have been reading a lot of your advice and services and your expertise and really like your recommendations.
I am now myself stuck in a bit of a dilemma and really feel like I'm going to burst out crying any minute now!!
I'm in the middle of major rennos and my first ever, my scheme of the house is French and have made a french facade design. I"ve finally chosen my exterior wall colour to be beige royal in dulux, but my issue now is the garage door, the colour bond range colours are what i can't decide on, i really want a colour to blend in from the colour bond range but can't seem to pick one that will match my beige royal walls, as i don't want the garage to stand out so rather it blend or be less noticeable.
Any suggestions from you would be greatly appreciated as I'm know on the deadline of choosing the colour for the garage by wednesaday.
Need help choosing external colour for a large weatherboard house with colourbond woodland grey roof and fascia, windows are a soft white I don't know exact colour, I know that the timber surrounds are grand piano maybe quarter strength. house faces west but get full sun in mornings at back as it sits on a hill.
Dont really have any idea on a colour yet, sometimes I think maybe a neutral colour but also something in a green or blue would also look good. Can you help?
Hi Fiona you are right – the combination of Ironstone and Timeless grey and white is classic and will look great. Woodland Grey will still work – it really depends on what you do with your gutters and fascias. If they are in woodland grey too you are really bringing that green undertone down into the scheme however if you use a white fascia it breaks up the whole look – hope this makes sense – I really think I would stick with your original scheme – sounds great!
Hi Samantha Can you help me please? I have decided to get the front exterior brick wall of my house rendered. It is an ugly bright orange brick at the moment. We have just had two new white aluminium windows fitted at the front of the house. I have been looking at a lot of colours for the render and have almost decided on Tapestry Beige for the render colour. Can you please recommend a darker colour for the two garage doors on the same wall as the Tapestry Beige render and also a lighter colour for the gutters and the other wooden windows at the side of the house and front door? The colour of the house roof is dark charcoal grey.
We had to change our garage door and downpipes recently due to some water damage issues. We selected Paperbark to match our existing brick exterior. We have now decided to render the house and we are confused as to what colour to select as we have Woodland grey facia and guttering and the paperbark garage door and downpipes. We don't want to have to change the garage door if possible as it has just recently been installed. Are you able to recommend any colours? we did like Dulux Mud pack &Time Capsule but not sure if this will clash with the paperbark. Linseed was another thought as it has green undertone as does our woodland grey. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
HI Annalee you may have already decided on this as I have been taking a holiday! Paperbark and Woodland Grey are both neutral and easy to work with. Linseed is a great exterior colour – perhaps paint a large board with this and put it next to the Paperbark garage door to see what you think?
Love reading your suggestions and want a little help deciding on render and window frame color. I have a west facing double storey house and have chosen Dulux Monument for roof and gutter and was thinking about painting the facias and rendering in wallaby. I have colonial windows and do not want to highlight them. I have bluestone paving and will also have a rendered fence abutting the house. I don't want the home to look to dark but i also don't want it to look washed out. Any color suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Adele it's very difficult to suggest a colour without meeting with you and this is where a colour consultant is invaluable. It sounds as though you have a beautiful house with the simple Monument roof and I love bluestone paving – it is my favourite! But there are so many options – perhaps as you like Wallaby for the trims a nice neutral mid grey brown – this would suit the classic look of your house but I really couldn't say exactly which one. Hopefully this is a start for you!
Samantha, we are about to paint our Federation brick home (unfortunately the brick face was painted by the previous owner – there is good-looking tuck-pointing underneath but alas it will never again see the light of day). The facade is south-facing. I would like it in a light stone grey, with dark grey gutters and fascia, off-white window frames, and a high gloss dark grey door. How does the south-facing orientation affect our choice of paint? Do you have any suggestions for tried and true combinations? We have a brick drive and path so I am keen to avoid the white trims looking yellowed.
So – you were absolutely right, of course, and I found that once I started painting samples on the front of the house, everything looked much greyer and bluer/cooler than it did on the swatch or on the back of the house.
A friend also had a pot of Dulux Linseed – it looked almost identical to Smooth Horizon half.
The best of those were Self-Destruct (a bit creamier/more yellow than we wanted), Smooth Horizon (beautiful with the bricks but too dark for the whole house given the southerly aspect). Smooth Horizon half I had high hopes for but the half-strength colour just looks a bit washed out overall. I am undecided about Kahlua Milk, having got a sample of it to try and hedge my bets and find a colour "between" Self-Destruct and Smooth Horizon half.
Any other suggestions? Thinking of Wattyl Thunderbolt fascia and then Magic White or Dulux Natural White for the windowframes.
Actually – on that note I have another question!
I love the colour of Smooth Horizon. It looks terrific with the bricks and the hue (if that is the right word?) is really lovely. Not grey – a medium stone colour, warm and elegant.
It has an LRV of 37 – the "darkest" colour we have looked like. Is that, in and of itself, an issue? With the window frames, gables, eaves and lining boards done in a white, could it be that it actually WOULDN'T look too drab? In some ways some of the paler colours look MORE drab because they are less warm/with less "colour" – more greyish.
Would you advise against using a darker colour like this, generally speaking, or could it actually work?
Hi Samantha, we are building a new two storey french provincial style home. The designer suggests the exterior render colors are: limed white/beige royal half/buff it half, the roof tile color is charcoal grey. We just wonder whether the colors are too light and we would like to have your advice on the color selection. We would also like to know what are the color combination for photo 13/44 and 40/44 in you website gallery.
i desperatley need advise with colour scheme please …….
Thank you for your advise. We would also like to know what are the exterior color scheme of the photo 13/44 and 40/44 in you website gallery? what would the colors be when you say 2-3 tones darker than limed white/buff it half/beige royal half?
Hi Samantha, I need your help! Am about to start painting my 80s brick house. I decided on Colorbond Shale Grey for the roof, with Surfmist gutters and fascias and verandah posts, window trims and front window shutters in Lexicon quarter strength and the house bricks in Linseed. To give the house a bit of a contrast I was thinking of painting the front door in Domino. My painter is concerned that it will all look bland and the same! What do you think? It is a large house and I live in the country, so was going towards cooler colours. The interior of my house is all antique white USA. Any help or advice would be so appreciated.
Before My husband and I get a divorce, we desperately need some advice.
I love the colours of the house on this blog, but struggling to find the right combinations.
Also We are putting new windows in, is there a certain guide we should follow, … as in same colour as the house or a lighter colour?
First of all I find your blogs insightful and educational.
Any suggestion is welcome. Thank you.
A great site filled with lots of useful advice! You mention above that Colorbond Dune ca throw off a pinkish tinge. We currently have a Dune garage door and want to match some cladding to it. I'm worried it I just go for a paint match, that it may contain the same pinkish tinge. Any recommendations on a Dulux colour close to Dune?
Hopefully you can help me as I'm hopeless at choosing colours.
We live on an orchard and have recently extended the house as we have 4 young children. We tried to keep the cottage look with weatherboards. The roof is Jasper and window and doors are cedar wood stained medium oak colour.
I'm unsure of painting the balustrade and weatherboards too light in colour due to too many little dirty fingers etc.
Can you help me please.
Great article and great advice. We are looking at the following colours for our home and would love to get your opinion and recommendations.
Can you please help us? We are currently building and close to getting the front rendering done. We've just got the colobond steel roof on and went with Dune for the roof and garage. I am not entirely satisfied with Dune as I did not realise it actually has a creamy beige pink tone to it rather than grey. We are now very worried because we chose Woodland Grey to go on the front feature wall and Army Issue for our main colour. On the colobond website Army Issue was a complimentary colour to Dune but we wanted a dark feature colour so just chose Woodland Grey. After reading some of the comments I realise that this is probably not going to look very good. Are you please able to suggest a dark feature colour that will compliment the Dune and Army Issue with the aim of having a neutral undertone rather that a pinky/brown or green? Arrrrrrggggh colours are so hard to tie altogether.
I have a huge dilemma in relation to where to start with colour schemes. It has become all too much. We are starting a house renovation & my dilemma is that we have cream (primrose) fencing,guttering & gates. We are not replacing the gates & fencing as they are unfortunately, virtually new. We are however, changing our roof, gutters & downpipes but I am totally confused with coulour schemes. We will also be rendering our house & will need to choose a colour for that as well. I really need your help searching for something that will match with the primrose fencing & gates. I realise that this colour is old fashioned but I have no choice but to work with it. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
I've just come across your site and blog last night – I've spent hours reading it already!
I need your help choosing a render and roof colour for our reno please. I've jumped the gun a bit in a desperate bid to get rid of the Federation green gutters, downpipes, patio and pool fencing that we bought the house with and painted it in Taubmans soft metallic. I feel this is now limiting my options. We live in Perth and our house faces West so gets strong afternoon sun at the front of the house. Our house is also on the down side of the road so the roof is prominent. I'm looking for a classic coastal look and was initially considering Pebble Bay for the render? I don't want anything too beige, or 100% grey either but prefer a grey undertone – hope this makes sense! As we've now painted with the Soft Metallic, would this make a suitable roof colour aswell or could you please suggest an alternative roof colour? Finally we will be painting the fences and looking at Woodland Grey, Monument and Wallaby… Which do you feel ties in best with the other colours?
I feel I am normally comfortable making these kinds if decisions but this Soft Metallic has really thrown me!
I'm currently painting our 1950s weatherboard house. I've chosen a resene paint called Rakaia ( a lovely light warm grey) and I'm doing the front door and chimney stack in resene nocturnal ( very dark grey) around the windows and facia/ eaves is resene Alabaster White.
When we get around to it I will also be painting our roof a dark grey as well. What I'm confused about is whether I should leave the baseboards ( 2 of them with a board acting as a lip dividing the weatherboard from the base boards) the same colour as the house or paint them in the nocturnal grey.
I guess I'm worried about the house looking like a licorice. But was told years ago that the base boards are generally in a darker colour. I would greatly appreciate your advice on this.
Hi Samantha, I need your advice! We have just updated our roof to Colorbond in Woodland Grey. The gutters will be Surfmist. I'm unsure what colour to paint the render. At the moment it is mustard yellow! Yuk….what were the previous owners thinking haha. I was thinking Beige Royal or Dune but a little worried about too much grey. I want warmth and a country feel. Our home is in a rural, bushy area with lots of trees. What do you think?
I came across your site recently. Great site with a lot of information & advice. We are building a new home which has a flat roof. We chose paperbark for our windows, gutter etc ?The render colour is 150 % Dulux Self destruct & 2 columns rendered with Dulux Stonecrop. I'm a bit disappointed. There's no contrast between these 2 colours. I'm not sure what colour garage door goes with this ? The house is on a wide block & north facing rear.
Can you please help me.
I need your help to select good combination of colour selection.
We are building a new single storey home. We have opted for colorbond Basalt as our roof/gutter color and colorbind dune as our facia/ window frames.
WE are confuse with dune colour for window frame as dune. our second option for window frame is Surfmist …Which colour most suite with above combination & give us better internal & external impression of our new home???
Surfmist windows will give you a crisper finish and can be easier to work with inside – for example Surfmist goes better than Dune with Taubmans June Fog. However Dune will look great outside too – it depends whether you want a crisper, lighter window and fascia or a more muted one. Consider the inside too and this may help you to come to a decision!
I really appreciated your great help to clear our confusion. Finally,As per your explanation we have decided to go for Surfmist window frame. Considering Colorbond Basalt roof & gutter, Surfmist Fascia & Window frame , Caoba garage door & Caoba Stain finish wooden Entrydoor, which colour of render look better?? Pl. help me . Once again,thanks for your suggestion.
Hi Samantha, I am a complete novice at choosing paint colours and have been in my coastal perth home for 3 yrs now. We have a single story home, surfmist roof, gutters, garage door, window frames and downpipes. I am hoping to do stone on our portico. We have used limestone pavers for the driveway and have a small rendered wall out front which has no colour either! I am going cross-eyed looking at paint colours online. Our front door is monument. I would appreciate any suggestions for a render colour for the house and also the small front wall. We have used lots of greys and browns internally. I hope you have some suggestions for me . Thanks in advance.
I have a north-facing 1960's rendered home, painted in a palette of poo and vomit shades of brown. I am trying to upgrade. The windows are white, and I have chosen monument colourbond gutters, with similar coloured fascia boards. Under the eaves I am painting white, and I am about to go with flooded gum for the rendered external walls. It is just so much money to spend – would be very grateful for your input as to whether these colour schemes work well on rendered walls.
Hi, any suggestions on how to modernise a 1990s house: primrose windows, primrose coloured garage doors x 3, primrose aluminium tubular fencing along front of house between brick columns, terracotta coloured roof and guttering, primrose colour under the guttering, light sandy coloured double storey brick house. Terracotta painted driveway and path to front door. Wanted to bring in greys and a black front door but don't know how to work it all with the horrid primrose windows and without rendering the whole house. Thanks in advance.
I was wondering if you could provide me with your advice about the colour of my colourbond roof? I am painting my house (external) Dulux Linseed with Woodland Grey (with Slate Grey base) and China White for features (doors, fascia etc). The front part of my house is very old with purple Welsh slate (with some green moss) and the back part of the house is currently being built as a modern addition. I am trying to decide on the roof colour for the new section and was thinking of going with Windspray but I don't know whether it has the correct undertone to match the walls etc. I also wanted to try and keep the rood light in colour to reduce heat in the second story.
We want something with a touch of warmth (looked at Augustus by Taubmans but it may be too warm), we dont want a cold feel to the house but to still match the surfmist etc..
Open to any suggestions especially regarding bag & brick colour and facia & windows colour.
I am in the process of building…and we soon will be rendering our house. I wanted to know your opinion of the colour Dulux Beige Royal to paint the exterior.
Do U think it will be okay if I just stick to full strength 100% for the exterior? Or will it look wishy washy?
Also….Are the colours 'Limed White' & 'Vanilla Quake' (in 200%) good for exterior colours??
Hi Samantha, Wow, great advice and terrific help you are offering people, and I hope you can help me. We are helping our son, update his home that he has just bought…it was built in the 90's and is very nana looking! It has a manor red roof, red brick and cream aluminium Windows…the Tubular fence is a green as is the colourbond fencing….We painted some bricks in the front Jasper, but I think it is way too dark…We are happy to paint everything! He would like a modern look…Would Dune on the brick and black on the Windows be too much? Thank you so much for any advice!
Hi Karen your son is very lucky to have you helping him! Dune and black look really smart together – just consider the overall look that you want to achieve – are the windows timber with architraves? If so this will look better than painting the aluminium black. Also consider the trim and front door – these could look good in black too or you could opt for a paint match to Colorbond Monument which is just a touch softer than jet black. Dune is certainly a nice warm neutral for the bricks. Good luck!
Great blog and site! I have been interested to read your comments assisting readers with colour choices and was hoping you may be able to help me if you are able to please. We have a south facing c-1930 Californian bungalow weatherboard home, set away from the road amongst greenery. It is currently painted in 2 shades of green; light main colour on the boards & shingles, and bottle/dark around windows, fascia and on baseboards (?) skirting the stumps. There is cream trim on the inner windows and pillars. There is merbau decking front and back and 'rustic' red brick on the front porch and exposed chimney. We have a new zinc roof and guttering. The colour scheme is quite outdated as you would be aware! I really like the greys/American style with white windows but I'm torn between that and a brown based creamy neutral that seems a bit more timeless? I initially thought I liked colorbond dune but after recently sampling and subsequently reading your replies to readers definitely see the pink! I am also stumped for whites! I thought maybe whisper white but I imagine this would be quite stark based on your above advice! I guess my question is: is there 3 colours in a grey/white theme you would recommend that would work together and/or 3 in a creamy/brown neutral?
I don't particularly like the dark around the windows, esp. the large bay window but feel that the house lends itself to 3 colours to break it up enough? Would you agree? Ha ha I hope I am making some sense.
How refreshing to find your site.
I am at my wits end trying to chose the right shade for our extension.
We live in Perth and have a lovely simple white picket fence.
Our house has just been texture coated using solver antique white which gives a very elegant soft creamy colour (not a yellow).
The gutters are surf mist and the roof is river gum colour bond ( a lovely sage green).
All the posts and verandah and windows are white.
We have built a studio in the back yard with russet red brick with cream mortar and a very larg sectional door that is antique white.
The interior of the studio has a very high cathedral ceiling with a loft. The timbers in the ceiling are bartu rafters with Cyprus pine gluelam. The are two steel beams to support the whole structure and are exposed. There is going to be a steel staircase going up to the loft. (We think these will be matt black.
All the sash Windows and doors are deluxe vivid white.
I need a colour to bring all of this together and was hoping you might suggest which way to go. I was going to use the solver antique white but I think it is not warm enough, but I am not fond of yellow.
Hope you can put me out of my misery. Thank you for such a great website.
Just after your opinion on colours I've selected for my new home.
I got some advice from you previously re exterior colours and our house has had its render done – Russian Toffee & Shipwreck. We really don't like the Shipwreck as it comes across quite yellow at times and really green/briwn at others. A bit confused as to what to do with it/replace it with. Any ideas? I was thinking something a bit lighter but maybe with some grey undertone but no idea which colour. We have dark oak stained timber windows to the facade where bith renders are, brick is Austral Praline light/neutral and are coastal. Thanks in advance.
you have some great tips!
I really like these colours but I am concerned because at the back of the house there is a lot of primrose yellow, lots of windows, sliding door, window grills and painted sections between windows. I'm not sure how these colours will work with the primrose yellow. I have thought about trying to work with the primrose by choosing Woodland Grey from the Colorbond classic range for the gutter and keeping the primrose yellow elsewhere. What would go with tge primrose?
Would appreciate any ideas. Thank you.
Hi Samantha, Just found your site, love how you are full of good suggestions for your readers! We have an old weatherboard house (1950's), unfortunately it is the thin rounded boards (not the nice wider flat ones) and i painted it a few years ago (the whole thing with a 2 inch brush, 3 coats, lots of mindful painting time lol). The boards are Dulux Gnu Tan, The window surrounds are Russian Toffee and the Eaves are Hog Bristle. I think from memory the wooden internals of the windows are a slight shade different but for the life of me i can't remember the name. Anyway my husband has just built a smallish deck and pergola over the old concrete porch out of treated pine. i now have to decide whether to paint, stain etc. i was thinking maybe a darker shade than Gnu tan for the posts and roof frame of the pergola and a stain on the deck (darkish).I thought that way the pergola etc wouldn't look like it was stuck on but would blend in a bit What do you think? i would love your advice for colours etc. We have a lot of green garden (ferns, palms) near house. Our front fence is Western Myall, We also have a long low deck of 1.2metres wide (also treated pine) that runs for 11 metres along out new back garage (garage is hardiflex painted Gnu tan with large Paperbark sliding doors) and a Colorbond Surfmist roof. that my husband built in January that we have not painted or stained yet. and our back deck off the house which is large was originally treated with organoil but needs redoing with something. i would love your advice please?
hi samantha, Thanks for your reply and n you definitely weren't too late, we have to wait for the treated pine to season before we can paint or stain it. I think the fascia on the house is dulux Russian Toffee by memory and by look. i can't find my colour card with the colours on it though i know i have it somewhere safe 😉 The window onto front deck is actually just plain aluminium. I think the window surrounds are Russian Toffee too. Yes i was thinking a dark stain on the treated pine deck too, do you have any suggestions as to which stain. The product Intergrain was recommended but i don't know what stain would be best. Thanks for your help, i appreciate it!
Your blog is amazing. I thought I'd share our story too and get some of your thoughts.
My wife and I building quite a large home, single story, but split level in a semi-rural area. We have decided to have a surfmist roof and would like a white coloured house as we have timber features that we want to set off, but we are having an awful time deciding on render and window colours. I am thinking of just keeping everything surfmist so nice and uniform to allow the timber features and green garden to apply the contrasts. However, I am worried that the external surfmist render will look a tad yellow in the sunlight, so wonder whether we should be using a different white for the external render, such as Lexicon quarter or white on white?
Hope to hear from you soon. Keep up the great work!
Hoping you please help me.
Going to have a feature wall woodland grey.
Don't know to paint main render dune or linseed.
Hi Sam, just re-doing a house and i need to chose a colour for the render and guttering etc, have to match the windows which are colorbond rivergum/willow colour. the roof tiles are mist green too, confused big time, would a light grey render suit?
Hi Con It's difficult to give you a definite colour but you probably want to stay away from anything with too much of a green base. I neutral like Dulux Linseed may be the way to go as this is light, relatively grey and very neutral – a soft stone colour. But it really depends on how large the house is and the look that you want. Take a look at Linseed on the colour chart to see what you think and whatever you do, ensure you use a sample first to see if you like it!
Hi Samantha, We have a 1929 red brick californian bungalow facing south and are considering replacing the concrete tiled roof and guttering with colorbond, and painting the exterior windows. We like surfmist for the windows and windspray for the roof, do you think this colour scheme is too modern for our old house? Would you use windspray for the guttering as well? And should we introduce another colour for the battens on the gables?
Have thoroughly enjoys reading your blog and thought you might be able to offer some advice on fencing colour.
The house is rendered white (not sure of colour), the roof is white also.
We have some grey tinted glass enclosing a courtyard on one end.
The fence will be aluminium slats with a 20mm gap between each slat and runs across the road side of the property.
I am currently looking at blending a colour (kelp/black) in order to get a colour which isn't flat black. It will be a strong contrast to the house and wonder if it isn't too dark.
I understand that warm undertones are better against foliage.
I have also looked at Monument and Colourbond Night Sky.
Your suggestions or advice would be most welcome.
My partner and I are first home buyers/renovators and are rendering our house – we need to choose a colour that matches the colour bond Roof Wallaby, and our black window frames. Any suggestions??
Thanks so much for the interesting advice in your blog. We are about to repaint the rendered walls, eaves and window frames of our house. The roof, fascia and guttering are colorbond woodland grey. The unrendered brickwork on the lower walls is a dark brown (with reddish, purplish tinges) and we have a paved courtyard with sandstone coloured pavers (they have a yellowish tinge). We had planned to repaint the timber window frames in woodland grey and the eaves in white. The walls are currently Clay Pipe but this doesn't quite go with the sandstone coloured pavers. It is a little too pink. We also have a feature wall in the courtyard currently painted Mayfair Tan but my husband would like to go for something a bit more striking. I would really appreciate your advice on appropriate colours for the walls, and your opinion on keeping the woodland grey windows and white eaves.
I found your blog quite at last minute where we have to decide on our color for exterior in the next 36 hrs to be precise. Hopefully I can get your view and any suggestions if need be. We have a double storey house, With monument roof colorbond, and decided shale grey for rendered exterior. Will possibly match the garage with a shade closer to our exactly as monument. We also have two pillars at the portico which we plan to make feature of some sort. Any suggestions on that will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
Hi Samantha – I just found your blog on exterior paint colours and am hugely impressed with your knowledge of colour – thank you. I say this with a heavy heart as I am almost at the end of my tether trying to find the right colour for my house. The previous owners decided on a colour scheme of yellow on the rendered walls, beige accents and orange feature wall with a black roof and garage door. Whilst we are happy with the black roof and the black garage door all the rest we are keen to change.
At this point I have looked at a range of greys which once applied as testers are all presenting as bright blue I have tried Water Worn, Timeless Grey, Salinger and a number of others – all blue. We are in full sun so I am guessing this is the reason. I am now looking at Malay Grey or Woodland grey on the render, keeping the black roof and garage door ….would love any advice you might have on these colour choices and especially accents, I am hoping to add some white in there too to go with white external and internal shutters.
Any advice greatly appreciated – thank you.
We can only choose colour bond colours for our render, was tossing up between dune, shale grey and evening haze? Worried that dune may throw a pinkish tinge and windspray may throw a blue tinge? I really don't want a blue and pink house!lol and worried that shale grey may make the house look too stark and concrete looking? I also have surfmist squared edge mouldings around the windows/garage door etc for contrast.
Any suggestions would be great!
Hi Samantha, Desperately looking for help on exterior colours and hope you can help!! Our house is a bit of an ugly duckling being a 1950's yellow brick. We have had the roof re-sprayed in charcoal and replaced our guttters and fascias with Colourbond Ironstone. Our front fence is currently being rebuilt and I need to decide on a colour by this weekend. While ironstone is one choice I am a little worried about the amount of blue it throws. Monument is another option but Is It too dark. Our house faces west and the fence is a rendered pier and picket to a height of 1.9m. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hi Samantha, thanks for your blog its really helpful. I am hoping you can suggest an exterior colour scheme for my home. Its an old house approx. 100 years on a farm. The roof is corrugated iron and in very good condition so no need to change it. I really love neutral grey/stone colours but with green undertones and am thinking the trim needs to be darker not lighter as it can get very dusty here. Any suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated. Also if you have a suggestion for a colour for our front door maybe something that would stand out…doesn't have to be the same as the exterior wall or trim colour.
Firstly, what a great blog. Thank you!
We are battling with the selection of a colour scheme for the exterior of our house and any advise you could provide would be much appreciated.
Its a simple/boxy red brick bungalow with a rounded front entrance and disproportionaltely small front windows. The roof is manor red with a very prominent roof line from the front. The guttering is cottage/brunswick green and the trim a browny charcoal grey. The front is west facing. Eek!
We have elected to paint the brick rather than bag/render.
The roof is in excellent condition so the manor red will stay. We were hoping not to paint the guttering but we can do if necessary.
I was thinking white duck for the walls (hoping that the grey/grey would not make the guttering stand out as much) with double strength white duck for the concrete trim and antique white USA for the timber window frames.
A friend of mine recommended your blog as I've been in a world of pain choosing a exterior colour for our home and I am so glad she did – your information and advice is fantastic!
After reading everyone else's questions and answers i am hoping you can help me also.
– we paid for a consultant come out to see us and was advised to go grey pebble on main render walls, heifer on gutters and facias and grey pebble quarter on window trims.
But the grey pebble quarter just looks white!! Now I'm stumped ? Do we go on a shade for everything or change the colour schemes completely.
We're after a colour that has a grey/stoney/beige tone to it. Our house unfortunately has a orange roof (one day we hope to get it painted grey) and primrose cream window surronds. So colours are tricky!
I would love love love your help!!
– we paid for a consultant to come out to see us and was advised to go dulux grey pebble on main render walls, heifer on gutters and facias and grey pebble quarter on window render Surronds. And heifer on the portico and roller door.
But the grey pebble quarter just looks white!! I'm now worried that the colour grey pebble is also going to be too light?!
I do really like the shade as We're after a colour that has a grey/stoney/beige/mushroom tone to it.
What colours would you recommend? Do you agree grey pebble would be too light, /&97@: we do heifer on main render of the noise?
Just to let you know Our house unfortunately has a concrete tiled orange roof (one day we hope to get it painted grey) and primrose cream window trims . So colours are tricky!
I would love love your help!! We're in a world of sample pots at the moment!
I'm completely overwhelmed by all the greys, beiges and greiges that are out at the moment!
I've seen some lovely pics on Pinterest where the walls are beige/stone/bone, the trim is white, and the doors are a duck egg blue, or slightly brighter blue.
I've been looking at Dune and Sandy Beige (too pink/), Grand Piano, Torere (too dark?). It's a California Bungalow. I want it to look a little bit modern but not inappropriately so. It's in a rural setting and the house gets very hot inside in summer.
Then for the whites: Natural White, Vivid White, the list goes on.
Finding the blue is another challenge. I don't want it to look too powdery in the strong sunlight.
Thank you so much for your reply! I came on today to apologise as somehow my Googling brought me to this question page, and when I posted my question I hadn't actually seen your fantastic article on choosing exterior whites. What a great and helpful article 🙂 Thanks again.
What a great site for us helpless and confused homeowners!
Have a 1950's double red brick (yuk), tiled roof with all the fungi (which will remain unfortunately) very large country home. Black aluminium windows going in and charcoal coloured cement in large outdoor area.
I need to choose colourbond roof colour for outdoor area (new roof for outdoor area being cut into present tiled roof)and choose paint colours for eaves, gutters and fascia of entire house and eaves, posts, trusses and beams in new outdoor area.
I'm thinking SHALE GREY colourbond roofing for new outdoor area roof (match the Fungi); colourbond MONUMENT (almost black) for posts and front decorative beam, colourbond BASALT for gutters and fascia; CREAM for trusses and ceiling in new outdoor area and all eaves.
A dilemma! Any suggestions. Thanks so much.
I love your love of Beige Royal! I need your expert please. We are currently painting our exterior. It has primrose cream window frames so we are limited in colour. We chose Beige Royal for the main render and have painted the façade colour bond ironstone which looks so great! (was all creamy pink before). Would like your advice on a roof colour, garage, gutters and fascia. I was thinking surfmist for the garage, gutters and fascia's however not sure about the roof. Maybe monument, charcoal (if that colour still exists!), woodland grey, basalt or maybe even shale grey. So undecided! What do you think would look good? Do you think the surfmist will look ok for the garage gutters etc? We have also put up a concrete brick rendered fence which we were going to do beige royal with wooden slats. new double wooden door is being installed as well. Does this all sound ok? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!! thank you so much.
Thanks for your reply in regards to my house back in October. We ended up doing Basalt roof, tuft walls and rogue feature and it looks amazing!
Now onto my mums house! She recently had her roof sprayed charcoal and her garage paperbark. She has creamy brown bricks and we just need to paint the fascia above the garage and the portico. Would your recommend we just do paperbark to blend in or another colour to contrast?
I have just spent the last few hours on your websites – thanks for the fantastic advice and tips!
We are currently renovating our 1950/60's blonde brick single storey home. We have just sprayed our tiled roof ironstone and have changed the gutters and fascia to ironstone as well – eventually we will change the roof to be a colourbond roof probably staying with Ironstone.
At the front of the house the windows are white and at the rear they are paper park.
Would LOVE your opinion on a render colour to compliment ironstone and our two window colours. Like everyone else we are thinking a grey / stone colour but with so many options just don't know where to start.
Hi Samantha, Im in desperate need of your expertise. i have a westherboard house on stilts atvthe back. My husband insists on dark balastrade so we are going with monument as the pipes run down them. I still would like white windows however. Im now stuck between Tranquil retreat and Flooded Gum (or maybe even half strength flooded gum) Is the Gum too dark to pair with monument and white? Help!
Your blog is a great and helpful.
I am under pressure of deciding the external colors for my walls and in desperate need of your experience advice.
The house is new two storey house, high ceiling, facing south west, elevation corner block, on high site.
… I also will have alfresco and balcony's ceilings lining with timber Mabau.
I am trying to achieve neutral color walls to go with the above combination colors but because south/west direction facing so the light colors will be washed out. I was thinking of combination of 2 colors main is Surfmist double strength (turn to light creammy) and the 2 entry columns (ground to top) of the porch in Western Mayall also double strength. They looks nice on a piece of paper but I am concerned that under strong sunlight looking from distance the 2 columns in Western Mayall will be too standout.
I am afraid to go with darker wall colors as might go with the wrong choice so just try to go with safe light color options.
I am thinking the safe color going well with Manor Red is Classic Cream but this combination is might be out of fashion now (???). Should I go Classic Cream and full strength of Surfmist (to obtain the fresh light tone for the house?).
You are a colour saviour, could you please light my way out of the colour choosing nightmare?
We have decided to render our house in a coastal area, but have to adhere to the existing colorbond windows and garage door which are green. Also, the garage roof has been painted green.
We wanted a sunny yellow colour (either BP scented candle or BP sunshine rays), however the renderer is steering us towards darker colours such as Self destruct, paperbark, evening haze (all Dulux).
Are we making a terrible mistake trying to go yellow-ish?
Please, what is your opinion?
Hi Samantha, I am having an old 2-room cottage in a heritage conservation area repaired and rerendered. The most likely choice is Porter's Paints Lime Wash in Country Road 150%. There will be a new Hebel addition separated from the old part by a breezeway. From the road the new and old part will both be equally visible. The roof is probably going to be Shale Grey Colorbond or another light colour.
The Council Heritage Advisor has suggested the addition be painted in a contrasting colour or at least a different shade of the colour used on the old cottage. The front windows should be painted to contrast with the render.
Do you have a suggestion or two for a Dulux render colour that will be more modern and meet this suggestion?
Hi Samantha, thank you very much for your suggestions. It has given me a way forward and now I can get some sample pots!
Thank you for your incredible wisdom and generosity on this blog.
We are trying to finalise an exterior colour scheme for our holiday house. The challenge is the age and condition of the external walls. It is an old miners house that was relocated more than 20 years ago. It originally had an asbestos roof which we have replaced with a Colourbond roof in Woodland Grey, and the exterior is the original concrete Stucco render, so lots of imperfections, quite large stone stucco, fine and wider cracks, but certainly not worth replacing, as it is basically the structure of the walls, and it is a simple beach house. It is located away from the beach, 2 sides in dappled shade with native trees.The windows are wooden, and will be patched, repaired, but again not perfect!
My thinking is that anything too light may highlight the imperfections. We will fill large cracks, and then use Dulux Render Refresh to fill fine cracks.I like the stone look, but in this environment not a really flat grey. My partner does not like too much green undertones,(pity… I do!!). So we are leaning towards Dulux Time Capsule, or Tapestry Beige, with windows in a lighter colour. Given the windows are not really a "feature", I wondered about a very light version of the same colour, or Hog Bristle.
I guess this blog has alot of new houses, our problem is a little different!
Why didn't I find you sooner I have spent months torturing myself over what colour to paint my ugly big rambling weatherboard. Our house is situated where the beach meets the bush so to speak. I had the old roof painted woodland grey as I wanted to blend in to the surroundings however now now I dont know what to paint the the body of the house. It is currently white which makes it look huge so I was thinking Dune but after painting samples on all sides of the house it is a bit too pink for my liking. I would refer not to go grey/blue hues as most houses in the area are painted that colour to pick up the colours of ocean and yellow isn't my thing. I intend keeping white window frames and balcony finishing etc but any suggestions about what would compliment the woodland grey roof and gutters and wont make it look like a dark blob would be really really appreciated.
We have an early 1900's weatherboard home and were originally going to re-paint it a soft grey with white trim but a few houses are now popping up in our street with the same colour scheme. We are now leaning towards a taupe/grey with white trim. Ideally we'd like the house to have a Hamptons look. A colour that we both don't mind is Dulux Mudbath with a Natural White trim. We are unsure if this would work and also what colour colorbond roof to go with it. I also don't mind having a charcoal type colour fascia board. Any suggestions and colour recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
My question, we gave our painter our selections yesterday and he strongly suggests the colours are too dark. He has asked me to rethink my colours and get back to him in the next 2 days. I am very confused and it worries me to go against my painter's advice, as I am sure he is seen a lot of different houses with a lot of different colours on the walls, some good and some bad and I definitely dont want mine to be amongst the bad ones..
Thank you so much for your advice, the walls will be painted in powered rock very soon, cant wait to see the results !!
There is one another thing that I need your help with. I am struggling to find a stain colour for our front entry door. Our south facing façade has Surfmist as the main render and feature render in Wallaby with a bit of Austral Blackberry bricks showing too.
I am looking for a stain colour which is a bit greyish or even blackish, not throwing much brown, red or yellow. Our interior flooring is laminate floating boards in a colour called reclaimed chestnut brown. Door style is Corinthian WINWS 19H. Could you please suggest a stain colour for the same..
Samantha Bacon is a graduate of Sydney's International School of Colour and Design and a Member of the Design Institute of Australia.
Samantha has extensive knowledge of colour theory and its application in both commercial and domestic settings. She has an impressive portfolio of work on projects in Sydney, the Central Coast of NSW, Newcastle and the Hunter Valley. Samantha is also the colour expert for national lifestyle magazines, Modern Home and Country Home Ideas.


Horror films, gripping stories, hula hooping, and tea are just some of the things that attracted me to actress and producer Chantelle Albers.
Chantelle's latest horror film, The 6th Friend is out now in theaters and VOD. The 6th Friend is about six college best friends who throw their own private graduation party that goes terribly wrong when an uninvited guest arrives. Out of self-defense, the girls find themselves in a night filled with murder. After five years passed, the horror of the past follows them as their demons come back to haunt them in another night of horror and bloodshed.
Chantelle is also filming Promises where she plays a singer who finds out that your daughter has a life-threatening illness and is unable to afford her medical care. The film depicts a journey of a mother's love and how far she will go for her daughter.
With so many projects going on, it was great to speaking with Chantelle.
For more on Chantelle visit http://www.chantellealbers.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!
1. Who or what inspired you to become an actress? The thought of being able to create another character and tell a captivating story with your own interpretation has always been fascinating to me. Growing up, my parents were huge movie buffs. We went to the movies weekly and always watched behind the scenes footage when it was available. My mom always loved going to plays as well and she would take me with her.
I remember just wanting to jump up on the stage too! Even as a small child, after a play I would always ask my mom to find out where the auditions were for the theatre's upcoming shows. Acting has always been something that I've been drawn to. It's the only thing I can continually do forever and be satisfied.
2. What made you want to take on producing in addition to acting? I wanted to start creating films that I was wholeheartedly a part of. Films where I could collaborate and be a part of the creative team that has a say in how the project turns out.
My team and I paid very close attention to detail with this film and producing from the ground up gives you the ability to do just that. When you produce a project, you have the ability to make the movie your own and make sure that it is exactly how you meant the story to be told.
3. This January your horror film, The 6th Friend, will be released in movie theaters and on VOD. What are you looking forward to most about this film's release? I'm really excited to hear what people think of the ending! People that have seen the movie so far have all been shocked by it, and that's exactly what we were hoping for. It will be interesting to see what the public thinks of it.
4. What was the hardest part about acting and producing this film at the same time? It's a lot of responsibility and requires you to multitask and wear multiple hats at once. It can be very stressful at times because at the end of the day the project is your baby, and it's on you if something goes wrong or doesn't get done correctly. It's like having a dual mentality. You get to be the actor that is playing the character and become completely engulfed in it, and then you step out of it and your head is in the business and logistical side of film making. It was constantly like this on set and in between takes. For pre-production and post production it was more focused on the technical side of making the film.
5. The 6th Friend is about six college best friends who throw their own private graduation party that goes terribly wrong when an uninvited guest arrives. Out of self-defense, the girls find themselves in a night filled with murder. After five years passed, the horror of the past follows them as their demons come back to haunt them in another night of horror and bloodshed. When have you had a party where something has gone terribly wrong? Well luckily, I have not been to a party where someone was murdered, that would be incredibly horrible. I was at a party once where we were playing games in the backyard, and we were doing a piggyback race carrying people. The guy that was carrying me on piggyback accidentally fell and broke his wrist! We took him to the ER and he had to have it x-rayed and casted. I felt so awful about it! The party game came to a fast close after that.
6. What is one horror of your past that has come back to haunt you? When I was on the dance team growing up, my coach had two little boys that would come to our rehearsal after school. They were only about 7 or 8 years old at the time and I thought they were so cute and precious. They were really sweet and well-behaved. About 11 years later, I found out that one of those little boys had died of a drug overdose. It broke my heart because I remember this beautifully innocent little boy who had so much ahead of him. I was in town when the funeral happened, and I went to it. I didn't know him that well at all, but he touched my heart and it bothers me to this day that such a beautiful young life was lost.
7. What did you like best about acting with Dominique Swain again? What did you enjoy about working with Jessica Morris? Dominique is a lot of fun to work with on set. She is a seasoned actress and she was really excited and enthusiastic to come aboard with our movie. She's really funny and her humor shines through in this film I think. Her funny bits always get a laugh at the screenings we've had. Dominique also brought a lot of great ideas to the set and was super collaborative during filming. We were out in the woods north of Los Angeles for a couple weeks filming some scenes and it was so nice to have a great cast to work with.
Jessica is one of the sweetest people you will ever meet, and as an actress she is just raw with uninhibited emotion. In addition to working together on The 6th Friend, we also auditioned for The Actor's Studio together and she was so easy to work with. She is a person you can really play off of in a scene because she gives you so much to work with. Her moments in scenes are filled with rich emotion that feeds into the other actor. She's incredibly empathetic, she knows how to personalize a character, and she adds in the details to make them more believable and real. I love working with Jessica, she's a wonderful actress, friend, and person.
8. You are also filming the movie Promises, where you play a singer who finds out that your daughter has a life-threatening illness and is unable to afford her medical care. The film depicts a journey of a mother's love and how far she will go for her daughter. What did you relate most to about this film? I think I related to my own mother while playing this character, because my mom was in the same situation with me. I almost died as a child twice. Once at the age of 2 and once at the age of 4. When I was 2 years old, I had a cyst on my esophagus that needed to be removed immediately. I was airlifted to The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN for emergency surgery to remove it as it was cutting off my wind pipe.
Then when I was 4, I fell on the ice and suffered a brain injury. I had an epidural hematoma which is a double concussion that creates a blood clot inside your brain. That also required emergency surgery and it required me to learn all my motor skills over again. When I woke up from the brain surgery I couldn't walk, talk, eat, sit up straight, or have any balance. I had to relearn everything. I can imagine what that was like for my mom and playing this character put me in her position.
9. I read that you are quite the hula hooper. How many times can you circle the hula hoop around without dropping it? Yes, I love to hula hoop! I haven't done it as often as I'd like these days, but I do have a custom-made hula hoop. I'm not sure how many times I can hoop without dropping it, but I can measure it in minutes. It's probably between 5-10 minutes that I can hula hoop without dropping it. Once you get your own rhythm going you can go on for a long time. I can spin it above my head and do a few tricks with it too!
10. I also heard that you are an avid tea drinker. How do you take your tea? What is your favorite kind of tea? Oh yeah I love tea! It's hard to say what my favorite is but I can name a few. I really love Earl Grey tea, the bergamot in it is to die for! I also love white tea and mint tea. I will try any flavor too. When I go into Teavana I can really go to town because they have every kind you could ever imagine. I was in Vons the other day and saw the flavor, "Sugar Cookie Sleigh Ride", and that is one that I have liked for years!
Chantelle has an extensive theatre background that includes musical theatre, summer stock, and straight plays with villainous character roles and quirky physical comedy being her favorite. After getting her BFA in Theatre Performance, she transitioned to film and television and began advancing her skills with stage combat and firearms. Having a passion for film making, Chantelle expanded her skills beyond acting and started producing feature films as well as plays, which is something she now loves and is very dedicated to. At Theatre of NOTE in Hollywood, where she is a producer and company member, you can catch her in a main stage show or a late-night comedy show. Things considered to be luxuries in life: the ability to create art, singing, horseback riding with whiskey, hula hooping, hiking with a walking stick, live music, and her dogs Marley and Eddie. She's also an avid reader, tea drinker, and a member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA.


This stunning young lady is Ms. Emily Braisher; she hates to be called a Wag, but she is the lovely girlfriend of a sports athlete, the lucky lad is English golfer Tyrrell Hatton, a member of both PGA and European Tour.
But surely you already knew that therefore allow us to tell you what we know about the exquisite Ms. Braisher.
First and foremost let us tell that Emily is no ordinary wag, which is why she created her blog Wife on Tour, in her own words..
I suppose I've started this blog as more of an outlet for my thoughts and daily life happenings. Since graduating university last summer I have taken to traveling full time with my boyfriend, Tyrrell Hatton, who plays golf for a living all over the world.
I know what my family and friends are all probably thinking…yes, I've called the blog wife on tour, but 'girlfriend on tour' doesn't quite have the same ring to it.. literally!
The 'WAG' (I hate the stereotype that comes along with that acronym) lifestyle can come across as nothing short of glamour and bliss, but in reality being away from home and living out of a suitcase can be really tough at times.
I created Wife on Tour to show the world what life is like inside the ropes traveling with a professional golfer. Click 'about me' to learn more!
Ms. Braisher received her diploma in Foundation Studies in Art Design and Media from Buckinghamshire New University in 2013; three years later got her Bachelor's Degree in Fashion Communication and Promotion from Nottingham Trent University.
Prior to her life on the course with Tyrell, Emily was a catering assistant and a sales associate for John Lewis; before that, she was a sales assistant at Next Retail.
Follow Emily Braisher on Twitter here.


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Here's What Young Nudy Thinks About That Viral Floor Collapse Video
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Every so often a viral moment captures our imagination for its sheer absurdity. Over the holiday weekend, a Twitter user with the handle @topxkazi shared a video from what appeared to be a graduation party inside of a residential home. The video shows a packed room of young people dancing to the Young Nudy and 21 Savage track "EA," from Nudy's 2017 mixtape SlimeBall 2. A ceiling fan dangles ominously close to the crowd, almost like a horror movie foreshadowing the chaos that's to come.
Just as the revelers seem poised for ecstasy, around the song's chorus, the video goes shaky and you hear screams throughout the party. The camera's video goes black just as we see dozens of partiers sunken into the ground — the floor apparently caved in.
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"We threw the littest graduation party of 2021 at an AirBnB and the floor caved in," the accompanying Tweet says. "We was listening to EA by Young Nudy and niggas got too lit. Now I have to pay for 15k in damages. Can y'all fwm ??"
A GoFundMe page was launched by a user named Abraham Nelson to raise money for the damages, which allegedly amount to over $15,000. Maybe out of sympathy for a graduating class that was robbed of their carefree days by the pandemic, Young Nudy took notice. A spokesperson for the rapper recently told Complex that he'd be contributing to the GoFundMe.
Nudy wouldn't say exactly how much money he was contributing to the house's repair, but he did confirm to Rolling Stone that he intended to help. He spoke to us about responding to DMs from fans, how people can listen to his music safely, and his upcoming releases this year.
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How did you first find out about this Airbnb situation?
One of my fans kept sending me that shit so I went and clicked on it. And then I seen the shit and was like 'damn they done fell through the floor.'
When you recorded that track, did you ever think something like this might happen?
Hell nah. You never know what the future gonna look like when you making the music. I knew they was gon' fuck with it but I ain't think they were about to god damn fall through the floor.
What made you decide to come through for the kid?
I don't know, I just wanted to fuck with em' since they were fuckin with me. And they some little high school kids, you know?
Have you ever been to a party where the floor caved in?
Shit, hell nah. Not that I know of. I don't remember. I been to a lot of house parties when I was younger but I don't remember no floor falling through.
What's the craziest thing you've seen at a party?
Shit, I don't know. It wasn't no type of parties like the ones they going to. Our shit wasn't lit like that. It was a different type of lit.
How can people out there enjoy Young Nudy music safely?
Make sure your house is goddamn-structured right. Before you throw a party with a huge amount of people, make sure that shit structured right. We don't want nobody to hurt themselves. Even though that shit was lit, you feel me?
Are you someone who likes to have a direct relationship with your fans?
Sometimes with my fans, if they DM me some shit, I'll sometimes hit they ass back. A lot of the time there's so much of it that I don't see all of them. It'll just be that lucky person that's doing something so funny that it'll make me just reply to them.
You just dropped DR. EV4L a few weeks ago, how did you arrive at the concept for this album?
That's the vibe I was on. Just watching horror movies and shit. You know, I love Chuckie, that's my dog.
What's one of your favorite horror movies?
I really just like Chuckie for real, for real. I like Michael Myers, too. I didn't like Michael Myers at first because I was scared of him, but I like Michael Myers now.
You also recently got a Grammy nomination for your feature on Dreamville's "Down Bad." What was that experience like?
That shit wasn't shit to me really. It was cool, I appreciate J.Cole and them fuckin' with me, you know? I don't really be caring about that type of shit until I feel like I really accomplish that shit on my own to the fullest. I'm always gonna feel better when I get myself personally in that situation — and when I win that motherfucker, too.
Are you planning more releases this year? What can you tell us about the next project?
Yessir. I'm tryna have some major shit going on. I'm tryna get bigger. I'm tryna figure out a way to make these people fuck with me more. I did the underdog stage and now I'm ready to just explore this shit. And learn this shit. Let the people see me more and learn a little bit more about me.
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